Alkermes’s Exenatide Once Weekly New Drug Application Review Extended by FDA Due to Weather-Related Closure

SAN DIEGO & INDIANAPOLIS & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN), Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Alkermes, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKS) today confirmed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set a new Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of March 12 for its review of the exenatide once weekly new drug application (NDA). The revised action date is the result of the FDA’s decision to allow five additional days for its review of pending regulatory applications following the agency's recent five-day weather-related closure.
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